*Stretches arms, blinks, and looks around*
Good morning, Interwebz! I hope you have not missed me too terribly. It’s not entirely my fault, you know. I’ve only recently emerged from a vampire-induced coma.
Yep, in less than a week, I read all four books – one of them twice as I impatiently awaited the chance to go out and buy the next.
I love me some juvenile fiction series, I do. Right up there with Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia.
So when the books were done, I finally broke out the camera again and documented some life that apparently was going on with or without me.
Benjamin prefers to watch his movies like this these days. He’s slowly conditioning my nerves so that they will be rock-solid by the time he’s 17 and asking for a motorcycle.
The following pictures are from my mom’s house, where we spent Thanksgiving. On Saturday night, we had our own little Christmas, since we’ll be in Missouri for the real thing.
“Someone said something about presents… Sure it’s 9:30p.m. and I’m exhausted and should be in bed, but I’ll sit here with my hands folded real quiet-like if presents are involved.”
“Right. Me too.”
Distribution!
Youngest first… oooooh….. what is it???
“AWESOME. A truck. That makes noise.”
“Aw, shucks. Grampa claimed it.”
Olivia’s turn.
Don’t be misled. She’s not upset. She’s staring, completely enthralled and intrigued by the fact that her SHIRT lights UP.
Benjamin’s turn again. Yes! More trains!!!
Aw, man! Sister scooped those right up, there.
He could deal with Grampa playing with his truck, but this was too much.
Then, on our way home, we stopped at a…
Christmas Tree Farm!!
After searching far and wide, we found that the ones in the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay far back corner were cheaper than the rest. After dragging it allllllllllllllllllll the way back to the front, we realized why.
(My arms… they are stiff.)
Our tree. 🙂
This is the part where I’m grateful I’m the wife holding the baby.
“Our tree fell down.”
Anybody else get a Christmas tree this weekend? Let’s take a poll – how many got yours from a box in the basement (garage, closet, ect), and how many braved the cold for the genuine smell of pine?
As always, add your picture posts below. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got to show me!
Vampire induced coma. I know it well 🙂 16+ hours driving time = lots of reading. But I am trying to pace myself. They are incredibly irresistible 🙂
And I love your photos. I miss cutting down Christmas trees – best part of my childhood.
I “braved the cold” as it were… It was in the mid-50s but I WAS wearing a long-sleeved shirt! And we just went to a local church selling trees, because Paul’s skin is apparently allergic to the only tree that can grow this far south. One day we want to drive up to the North Carolina mountains and cut down a Christmas tree.
Was this the Christmas tree farm where Josh used to work?
Is that SNOW?? *jealous* I haven’t seen SNOW in 4 years!! (Since I left Indiana) (minus a feather dusting we got last winter). I miss SNOW. It doesn’t seem Christmas without SNOW. (I’ve never spent Christmas in the snow… see how all the movies have conditioned me!)
I long for real trees as that was all I had growing up. Sadly we have lived in places where they cost an arm and a leg so we got a fake tree. Now that we are in a place where the prices are reasonable we don’t have a stand for a real tree so we just put up our fake one again.
I’m on my 2nd go round of the Twilight series. They truely are incredibly well written. I saw the movie ( the cause of the reread-a-thon) and it was VERY close to the first book.
As for the tree, we don’t have it yet but two weeks from now the smell of a douglas fir will be in every inch of my house.
I was starting to wonder where ya went! And, I think your family had the earliest Christmas party ever. Way to get all of those gifts so early!
Our Christmas tree is a $15 Target special that I picked up maybe 4 years ago. It’s 6 feet tall and it’s not fooling anyone. Scraggly and superfake but it does the job and its box isn’t that big.
I finally got around to reading Harry Potter last year, and from September through December…yeah. I wasn’t around much. Matthew still recalls the couple days he came home from work to find me still in my bathrobe, toys all over the floor, Katherine entertaining herself, and me blissfully unaware. : )
I re-read HP 4-7 in the last few weeks of pregnancy before Joshua was born, when I was too tired to do much else.
Steve and I are on Christmas #5 of a pathetic $17 tree from Walmart. It doesn’t look TOO ridiculous when the lights are on. 🙂
And as for that nice pine smell, I likes the needle-free, no-watering-needed candles.
I wish I could afford a real tree too. However, I was relieved the fake one passed my daughter’s standards. I guess it doesn’t matter to her. I’m just happy that she loves it. Happy holidays everyone!
🙁 I miss real trees. This will be the first year of my life that I have a fake tree. Last year we discovered Lexi is allergic to real trees. 🙁 no real trees for us for a while… boo.
Don’t have one yet but it will come from the woods. Fake trees do NOT survive in my house. Alex is way to rough with them and real trees hold up better.
We didn’t get our Christmas tree yet, but when we do we go to a local tree farm up in the hills. I don’t like fake Christmas trees. We had a scraggley little four foot fake tree for five years when we were in the Air Force and as soon as we got out I did a happy dance in the freezing cold as we searched for our Christmas tree.
beautiful tree! glad i got chance to catch up with you via your blogging =) we must talk soon!